You aren’t wrong but I also think people tend to forget just how much of what we grew up on were remakes and rehashes of stuff even from the radio era. Especially the cartoons that we watched as kids, so much of that was just recycled jokes and such with some jokes for the adults of the day thrown in too. Even Star Wars was an homage to the serials of the 30s-50s like Flash Gordon, which itself got an 80s remake (with an excellent soundtrack by Queen). The remakes aren’t new they are just more obvious.

“Rip. Mix. Burn.”

Several of the scenes in 6 were obviously shot on TNG sets. The Engineering scenes are the most painfully obvious as, in some cases, they literally just have a bunch of extras standing in the way of the panels they didn’t change.

The legality of emulating current gen hardware has already been decided. (At least in the US)

I’m not sure I totally believe that but even still, this was a time when strong beers and fortified wines were basically more common than good drinking water…

Google has taken over the Web. Lucky for us there are other software platforms on the Internet.

For penis havers it’s called paternity leave.

ETA: Though I have always felt this to be pointlessly gendered. Everybody should get parental leave regardless.

There has always been an incongruence around the A where the original point, when it was revealed at the end of four, seems to have been that it was a recommissioned and renamed constitution class that had been recently refitted like the Enterprise was in TMP. But then Shatner came in with five and insisted that it was a brand new ship for some dumbass reason that most people seem to have retconned from the cannon.

Ars has been on a downward slide in quality for a while in my opinion. Just the other day there was an announcement from NASA about astronauts being able to take smartphones to space and the Ars article mentioned iPhones specifically in the headline and the article despite the press release not naming brands.

I wouldn’t be surprised if she just heard somebody else say cabinet meeting and she thought it sounded cool.

That’s weird. Most of the cars I have had can open and close the windows from the fob. (Usually double press then hold unlock or lock, though one car I had [Accord] required the key in the door for the windows to go up.)

The day they killed off Windows Phone is they day I knew that there were no more devs left in the c-suite and that they were on a slow path to spinning off what’s left of their profitability.

They used to conduct them close enough to Vegas that you could see them:

I believe they have the option of just convening another grand jury.

I’m pretty sure Stitt is just the current president of the NGA.

I mean… They are super hard to dispose of if it sets up in the truck.

One of the best things about DS9 is that they touched on the idea that those outside the Federation see the Federation as exactly how you just described.

For me that kind of ethics play and such is part of what is missing from new trek.

They haven’t changed the plumbing for printers since Vista, the changes they made then are part of why it took until 7 for things to work correctly.

Currently passing through the state of chaos.

I want to believe it’s just a husband trying to be cute, but the ‘grew up around too many trad wife type people’ part of me is having a hard time not assuming the worst.